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Sprinkle Vol 2 - April 2009
The Freire Project is pleased to present:
Sprinkle: A Journal of Sexual Diversity
Studies Vol 2 – April 2009
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Table of Contents
1 Editorial: “Why this isn’t a baking guide and other truisms”
Emma Gray, Shaamini Yogaretnam, and Zoe Engberg
4 Developing Sprinkle: Notes on creating an undergraduate student journal
Elizabeth Meyer & Paul Sutton
“This one time, at band camp ....": Experiential Narratives
7 Casual Make‐Outs in Heteronormative High School
Katie Peacock
16 Debunking the Myth of Gay Promiscuity
Theo Lyons
“Foucault is my homeboy”: Queer Theory
27 Not My Scene: Queer Auto‐Ethnography as Alternative Research Method
Lorin Scharwz
36 L'Art, aux limites de la theorie l'experience sensible de l'idee
MarieSophie Banville
47 FTM Embodiment o Masculinity: TowNew Feminist Politics of Incoherence
Kai Peetoom
The Trial of Sex v. Gender”: Queering MedicoLegal Frameworks
61 The Search for the 'Gay Gene' and tedicalization of Same‐Sex Desire
Amanda Oliver
70 No 'Promo Homo' Takes a Hit: Examining Lawrence v. Texas and the Evolution of Anti‐Gay Discourse as Palimpsest
Dawn Cunningham
“Xena's Totally into BDSM”: Queer Readings of Media and Literature
82 New Ways of Representing Desire in Boys Don't Cry
Kate Bass
89 Taboo: Dracula and Stoker's Forbidden Sexual Metaphors
Jenna Whitnall
100 Contemporary Cable Television and Hegemonic Masculinity: Pricks, Pussies, ad Publicity in BO's Entourage
Shaamini Yogaretnam
111 Paradoxical Scripts: A Critical Reading of Contradictions in The L Word
Emma Gray
123 Acknowledgements
| Attachment | Size |
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| Sprinkle_vol2_final.pdf | 593.3 KB |
| Editorial_Gray et al.pdf | 176.95 KB |
| Editorial_Meyer + Sutton.pdf | 115.85 KB |
| Peacock_Casual Makeouts.pdf | 142.83 KB |
| Lyons_Debunking Gay Promiscuity.pdf | 155.88 KB |
| Schwarz_Queer auto-ethnography.pdf | 153.21 KB |
| Banville_Art et la Theorie Queer.pdf | 181.26 KB |
| Peetom_FTM embodiment.pdf | 158.82 KB |
| Oliver_Gay Gene.pdf | 174.1 KB |
| Cunningham_no promo homo.pdf | 220.51 KB |
| Bass_Boys don't cry.pdf | 149.89 KB |
| Whitnall_Dracula.pdf | 162.12 KB |
| Yogaretnam_Entourage.pdf | 170.35 KB |
| Gray_L word.pdf | 190.77 KB |
| Acknowledgements.pdf | 111.16 KB |
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This is wonderful, thank you
This is wonderful, thank you for posting the articles! If you are ever in need of a reviewer or copy editor, please let me know. I would be happy to help.
opportunities to review/edit
Thanks for your positive feedback! We are always looking to add new reviewers to our pool. If you are interested, please send your name, email address, and a brief background to: sprinkle.journal@gmail.com
SOME POSSIBLE AREAS OF INTEREST & EXPERTISE TO INCLUDE IN YOUR BACKGROUND STATEMENT:
'Debunking Gay Promiscuity'
What Lyons has failed to address here in his attempt to prove that not all gay men are sex crazy is the issue of pleasure. Is it possible that some men (and some women) do actually engage in 'a lot of' sex because they find it pleasureable? Does the body and its physical pleasures play no part in sex, or is everything sexual determined by mental discourse and subconscious motivations?
Perhaps there is a need for another article to follow this: the historical and cultural influences that demand we have to justify participation in sex.
re: 'Debunking Gay Promiscuity"
I'm not sure that this is really an omission rather than a different issue altogether. You seem to be suggesting that it is possible that gay men actually engage in more sex than straight people - that instead of denying this myth one should deny the idea that it is bad to pursue pleasure through sex. That's an interesting and valid point, and maybe a good topic to explore...but exploring the role physical pleasure plays in sex doesn't seem too promising. If gay men actually have more sex than straight people, and gay men have more sex because it's pleasurable, wouldn't you need to then look for differences in the pleasurability of gay and straight sex? That seems like quite the task...and not a particularly fruitful area of study.
More importantly, there is more to "promiscuity" than engaging in lots of sex - promiscuity suggests that this sex is casual, and not part of a stable relationship. Again, it is definitely valid to refute the idea casual sex is deviant or wrong. Lyons' argument is different though - he asks why gay men are seen as promiscuous, not why promiscuity is a negative thing. Both issues are important, but the first question can be answered without reference to the second one. His issue is not "why do people think that gay men have lots of sex?", but rather "why do people think that gay men have lots of random sex outside of stable relationships?". And, Lyons argues that part of this is because gay men have historically not been able to have stable relationships because of societal pressures...I think he addresses both why gay men in some instances have had to be more "promiscuous", and other reasons that people may think that gay men are particularly promiscuous. So, I don't think that the issue of physical pleasure can really explain why gay men are seen as having more random sex than straight people
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re: 'Debunking Gay Promiscuity"
Having watched the finale of American Idol this evening, I was deeply disappointed that Adam Lambert did not win. As a hetero female, I've found myself pining over the young gay man nearly half my age. If I was a gay male, I think I would be promiscuous - the temptations are far too great. So many good looking young gay men to choose from. Sometimes, I think straight men are missing out. Instead they frequent serevices such as escort paris simply because the easy casual sex is not as simple as I believe it to be in the gay male world. But maybe Ive just watched too many episodes of Queer as Folk.
responses to Sprinkle
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